The Americans: Unit 1 "Early America"

MYP unit question: How do our environments impact our actions towards others?

Readings on Societies around 1492 - pages 8-25

• Follow these instructions to ensure that your page of the wikispace teaches your classmates about your group's reading:

  • Write your NOTES for each section of your reading.

  • Write a one paragraph description of the NATURAL environment of the society from your reading.

  • Write a one paragraph description of the BUILT environment of the society from your reading.

  • Make a list of the CONSTRAINTS afforded to the society from your reading due to its location.

  • Make a list of the OPPORTUNITIES afforded to the society from your reading due to its location.

  • Make a chart that shows the similarities and difference between your society and the 2 societies from the other group's readings.

• Use this evaluation sheet to assess your group's wikispace as well as the other groups' wikispaces.

TransAtlantic Encounters

• Use this list of questions to synthesize your group's learnings from Chapter 1. Type the group's answers on to your page of the wikispace.

Group Essay Assignment

Use this assignment sheet to guide your group's work towards completing a group essay.


Use this evaluation sheet to evaluate your classmate's 1st draft of their group essay.